COMPUTER GAMES:God of War:Kratos:With credit to Alex/Alexmicroheroes. I used his micro of Kratos as a guide for this one. I basically copied his micro pixel by pixel onto my template (with a few minor adjustments).

Yeah, I also like my super smooth style, I like things to look detailed and relatively realistic. In fact I'd say you have a slightly similar style.

I do indeed try my best to give my micros a detailed look and also want to make them plausable/realistic... but i think my shading is much closer to pixel art where yours is closer to digital drawing yu use way more shades to make it smooth i use 4-5 shades per colour tops

Indeed. Thanks! Well my upcoming micro which I keep taking about (which has taken well over a week by now) certainly is much closer to digital drawing than pixel art.

2-5 shades you say? Well you do a good job with it. I myself have been known to use up to about 8-9 shades. Usually I use 8 including the outline but in older micros I think at some point I might have used nine.